A Study of Noctes Ambrosice

19^世纪早期的爱丁堡城市文化<th>在继承苏格兰启蒙运动的丰富遗产的同时，也敏锐地意识到了当时正经历着从古典主义向浪漫主义过渡的伦敦文坛所发生的变化。它标榜自己的精致和老练，但另一方面又摆脱不了苏格兰本土风格，人们认为这种风格过于落后，与精致对立。这种情况在爱丁堡布莱克伍德杂志上极受欢迎的连载小说《安布罗西之夜》中得到了清楚的反映。这个虚构的圆桌会议的主要参与者是“克里斯托弗·诺斯”（约翰·威尔逊饰）和“牧羊人”詹姆斯·霍格，他们为探索城市文化中固有的矛盾和冲突提供了有趣的材料，因为他们的角色扮演表现出强烈的对比;“诺斯”用标准英语说话，而“牧羊人”则用广泛的方言说话。这项研究的重点是光学作为一个中心竞技场之间的斗争理性主义的观点（由“北”）和传统的观点（由“牧羊人”）的超自然。值得注意的是，<rd>《大英百科全书》第3版（1801年）和第4<th>版（1810年）的增刊中关于光学问题的条目比以前多得多，当时杰出的知识分子大卫布鲁斯特（David Brewster）写的一本启发性的书详细介绍了产生“奇妙”现象的光学仪器，并用严格的科学术语解释了显然是超自然的事件。参考这些讨论，本研究仔细分析了霍格的三个危险的人在1822年出版的，Noctes的名声的顶峰微妙渲染的超自然;“奇妙的”幻想描述，显着，从两个不同的角度代表的“北”和“牧羊人”。这是霍格巧妙的报复方式，他在《夜》中扮演的“牧羊人”基本上是畸形的。

The urban culture of Edinburgh in the early 19^<th> century, while inheriting a rich legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, was keenly aware of what was happening in the literary scene of London, which was at that time experiencing the transition from Classicism to Romanticism. It boasted of its refinement and sophistication, but on the other hand it could not get rid of Scottish vernacular styles, which were supposed to be too backward and opposed to refinement. This situation is clearly reflected in Noctes Ambrosiae, an extremely popular serial in Edinburgh Blackwoods Magazine. This fictitious round-table talk had as its principal participants 'Christopher North' (John Wilson) and 'the Shepherd' James Hogg), who provide interesting material for exploring the paradoxes and conflicts inherent in the urban culture, because their role-playing exhibits a strong contrast ; 'North' speaks in what is called Standard English, whereas 'the Shepherd' in broad vernacular. This research focuses on optics as the central arena for a struggle between a rationalist view (shown by 'North') and a traditional view (by 'the Shepherd) on the supernatural. What is to be noted is that the supplement to the 3^<rd> edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1801) and its 4^<th> edition (1810) had much more extensive entries on optical matters than before, and that one enlightening book by David Brewster, a prominent intellectual at that time, detailed optical apparatus which produced 'marvellous' phenomena and explained apparently supernatural events in strictly scientific terms. Referring to these discussions, this research carefully analyses the subtle rendering of the supernatural in Hogg's Three Perils of Man published in 1822, the zenith of Noctes's fame ; 'marvellous' illusions are described, significantly, from two different perspectives represented by 'North' and 'the Shepherd'. This is a ingenious form of retaliation by Hogg, who was basically deformed as 'the Shepherd' in Noctes.